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    born with cruelty in them. After reading “The Perils of Obedience”‚ The Kitty Genovese Case”‚ and Darley and Latane’s experiments‚ I realized that humans acts based upon the situation and people around them in a case of emergency. Humans sometimes get confused on whether they should care about the crises or others will take care of it. “The Perils of Obedience” was an experiment done by Stanley Milgram concentrating on the conflict between obedience to the authority and individual’s self. Milgram

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    Unethical Psychology Experiments The Aversion Project 1970s and 1980s Psychologists involved: Colonel Aubrey Levin “Dr. Shock” – former chief psychiatrist The Aversion Project took place in South Africa in a top secret project in the 1970s and 1980s. The apartheid army force in South Africa would force white gays and lesbians to undergo many torture experiments as a means of turning them into heterosexuals. Dr. Levin would give the soldiers electric shock‚ sex change‚ chemical castration and many

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    and by manipulating the number of people present through each experiment‚ they see how people respond to crisis in larger numbers versus smaller numbers. They concluded that in order for a bystander to act in an emergency the bystander first must “notice that something is happening‚ interpret that the event is an emergency‚ and decide that they have person responsibility to help.” They tested their theories through a series of experiments. They first studied these factors by manipulating the number

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    Summary In 1965‚ Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment which mainly focused on the severity of the electric shock that a person would be willing to administer to another person based on the directions that were given by an authority figure (Milgram‚ 1965). The researchers who were apart of this study expected anyone who participated would go beyond 150 volts shock point. The “victim” stated they no longer wanted to participate in the experiment. In 1965‚ Milgram reported that this study had

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    Milgrams Study

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    (Milgram). Many would argue that Stanley Milgram’s experiment was unethical‚ because they believe that the research caused the subjects psychological stress that was not resolved after the study‚ however‚ I beg to differ. In his own words Stanley Milgram said‚ “In my judgment‚ at no point were subjects exposed to danger and at no point did they run the risk of injurious effects resulting from participation. If it had been otherwise‚ the experiment would have been terminated at once.” Not to mention

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    Active Versus Passive Torch

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    Running Head: A FACTORIAL STUDY OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE TOUCH A Factorial Study of Active Versus Passive Touch and Latex Gloves in Object Identification (2058420‚ 3374327) University of Pittsburgh Abstract The experiment observed object identification (OID) accuracy using active versus passive touch and glove versus no glove as independent variables. We defined fit of glove and gender as subject variables. Fourteen participants experienced each condition and experimenters

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    “The Cheater’s High: The Unexpected Affective Benefits of Unethical Behavior.” The abstract of that study states that if an unethical behavior does not seem to inflict harm on a real person‚ the cheater does not feel guilty or ashamed. Across six experiments‚ the experimenters find that although people expect to experience negative affect after over-reporting their performance on cognitive tasks‚ they actually experience a boost in positive affect. These findings challenge existing models of ethical

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    Power Loss and Power Gain

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    Discipline: IMS Semester: 4th Dated: 15th April‚ 2013 Introduction This research paper is about power‚ power gain and power lose. What is the effect on people’s behavior when power increase and decrease. In this research paper four experiments are taken. These experiment were design to investigate the effect of power lose and power gain and to test the specific proposition that in exchange interaction‚ people will ask more than self’s when they gain power but that they will not ask less for them self’s

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    Animal Testing - Essay 1

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    useless tests. The animals cannot fight for themselves therefore we must. There should be stronger laws to protect them from laboratory experiments. Although private companies run most labs‚ experiments are often conducted by public organizations. The U.S. government‚ the Army and Air Force in particular‚ has designed and conducted many animal experiments. The experiments were engineered so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single

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    Grading System

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    Grading System: Experiments (Total of 8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60% Midterm (4)‚ Finals (4) Breakdown of the 60%: • Pre-Lab --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15% o Research (Data Sheets‚ Write-Ups) • Experimentation ----------------------------------------------------------------- 15% o Materials (No Materials no experiment) o Experiment Results (Hand Written Short

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